Good Evening to an Out and Proud Elvira and Only Elvira

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | September 21, 2021 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | September 21, 2021 |

Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, has revealed that she’s been in a relationship with a woman for the past 19 years. We accept this ray of sunshine upon our nightmare trash monster world, Mistress of the Dark. (Advocate)

Jennifer Lopez calls herself the “scarce asset” in Adweek cover story and with or without Ben Affleck, she’s proved it. (Lainey Gossip)

Britney Spears is “back” on Instagram, but her fans aren’t buying it. (Dlisted)

Jake Gyllenhaal swears he’s bathing. (Celebitchy)

I think we all need a feel-good story this week

God bless the kids at Pa's Central York HS. When mush-minded parents rammed through a ban on books about MLK, Rosa Parks, Malala and others, these students fought back. Monday night, they won

My new column https://t.co/ia6oJkaYSn

— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) September 21, 2021

Roxana wrote about the anniversary of Stanley Tucci’s Big Night, the impossibility of artistic integrity, and how we should have known to expect those thirsty cocktail-preparation videos. (Crooked Marquee)

From Claude: This is pretty big. Like “dwarfing the writers’ strike” big. (Variety)

From Steven: Well, damn, that’s a hell of a job covering a legend. (YouTube)

From Petr:

'70s Pacino, pure fucking chaos pic.twitter.com/7X8MDEoHdt

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) September 18, 2021

Kathryn Hahn will play Joan Rivers in a new Showtime series. (HuffPost)

David Simon pulls his latest HBO project out of Texas to protest the state’s horsesh*t abortion ban. (Deadline)

Daniel Craig doesn’t think James Bond should ever be a woman. OK… (Radio Times)

Ardaigle reviewed her friend (and occasional Cannonballer) T.J. Condon’s account of her husband’s liver transplant, Some Assembly Required. "This is a no-holds-barred glimpse behind the curtain of a painful experience and she is sharing it with us both for laughs, and just in case it might help someone else." What book would you write to help someone else? (Cannonball Read 13)